Bloomberg From mobile phones to furniture, Vietnam’s export boom shows no signs of losing steam, defying a gloomy outlook at the beginning of the year when US President Donald Trump persisted with his trade threats. Furniture maker Xuan Hoa Viet Nam Co. is planning for a 20 percent increase in export orders next year by investing $3 million on equipment ...

Bloomberg Huawei Technologies Co., China’s biggest maker of smartphones, said the head of sales for its domestic consumer business has been detained in a corruption investigation. Police have taken immediate action on Teng Hongfei on “suspicion of taking bribes,” the Shenzhen-based company said. Teng ran Chinese consumer sales for the company, which over the past year rose to No 1 ...

Bloomberg Global investors are snapping up small-cap stocks in South Korea as they rotate out of big companies listed on the main Kospi index after 2017’s 20 percent rally and amid optimism about the government’s plan to stimulate the tech-savvy market next year. Foreigners bought $88 million of shares in the Kosdaq gauge, helping push up the index 3.9 percent. ...